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- [Narrator] Commander
Fleet Activities Yokosuka

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held their annual Friendship Festival.

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They open the gates to the local Japanese,

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so they can experience a
piece of American culture.

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- Today, we have the
2018 Friendship Festival

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here at Yokosuka Base.

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I mean, it's a really great event.

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It's important we have things like this

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so that we can do some culture exchange

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with our local friends.

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- [Narrator] The American
and Japanese people

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look forward to experiencing
each other's culture.

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It helps bring them closer together.

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- This is a day to kind
of remind ourselves

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what we're fighting for;

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what we're trying to
improve every single day,

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and that is the camaraderie,

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that's the friendship,

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that's the reason why we're here.

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- [Narrator] This marks the
42nd Annual Friendship Festival.

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The festival has become a local tradition

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that Japanese and American people

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love coming to every year.

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Lance Corporal Alexander Palmer,

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Commander Fleet Activities
Yokosuka, Japan.